Neptune's Brood : : a Space Opera

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Call Number: Science Fiction, Adult Book / Fiction / Science Fiction / General / Stross, Charles
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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After being stalked across the galaxy by an assassin, post-human Krina Alzon-114 journeys to the water-world Shin-Tethys in search of her sister.

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Political-Economic Exposition submitted by Jen Chapin-Smith on June 17, 2014, 7:29pm A sequel to "Saturn's Children," "Neptune's Brood" tells the story of Krina Alizond-114, a clone born into indentured servitude to the woman whose DNA she has. Krina works as an historian of accountancy, which looks just like a forensic accountant, in her "mother's" economic and political empire. Our protagonist sets out to find her missing clone sister but someone keeps trying to kill her along the way, possibly because she has uncovered information about financial malfeasance on an interstellar scale.

Technology has advanced so much in Krina's universe that individuals can move their consciousness from one body to another, or even make copies of themselves (mind and all) in order to literally be in more place than at the same time. It causes no end of confusion, especially as so many of the clones look alike, but becomes an important plot point.

For those who do not like long explanations of economics, skip this book. It has a lot of exposition about this universe's political-economic structure, including banking and the debt required to launch a new nation in this system. The explanation is necessary to understand the complex plot twists, but one wishes for more show and less tell.

Read "Saturn's Children" first so as to have the backstory in order to understand this novel.